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A review of religion, politics, and culture since 1924, edited by lay Catholics. Subscribe here: https://t.co/bVOvJQ2oft
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Joined March 2009
The November issue is here! Feat: - Lauren Kane on St. Godric - Alexander Stern on technology and deculturation - An interview with @blgtylr - The Editors on Leo & care for the poor And more! https://t.co/KvonkCRHWP
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"We need religious communities capable of reminding us that the human is not a function, and that truth is not an output. Salvation cannot be downloaded with a click." @antoniospadaro writes on religion in the age in the age of algorithms: https://t.co/ewSq62e7kj
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Genuine religious practice is the art of listening for what no machine will ever pronounce.
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In 1998, the Christian right was at a crossroads. Tragically, it took a path leading into the arms of Donald Trump. @JohnFea1: 'Roads Not Taken' https://t.co/vmdB9qvKXN
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In 1998, the Christian right was at a crossroads. Tragically, it took a path leading into the arms of Donald Trump.
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"The media invades, surveils, controls; the parents do likewise. Both, we tend to think, are responsible for the pathologies of anxious, isolated, infantilized children." — @NaomiVFisher
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families?
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"We proudly invert the words of Mary’s Magnificat: we cast down the lowly and lift up the mighty!" @TerenceJSweeney on what it will take to recover a truly Christian view of the poor: https://t.co/HGFBAhxz7Y
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The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.
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"In 2016, Donald Trump, an outsider, ran his political campaign using lessons from this Evangelical playbook." @JohnFea1 on the exit ramps evangelicals ignored: https://t.co/vmdB9qvKXN
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In 1998, the Christian right was at a crossroads. Tragically, it took a path leading into the arms of Donald Trump.
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‘Dilexi te’ can help guide our struggles against MAGA’s effort to disappear the vulnerable. @TerenceJSweeney: The Trumpist project is one of re-paganization. https://t.co/HGFBAhxz7Y
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The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.
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In the face of the awesome and lifegiving power of rivers, human beings may be the real terror. Vincent Miller reviews James Scott’s ‘In Praise of Floods’ & Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive?’: https://t.co/r522endG91
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In the face of the awesome and lifegiving power of rivers, human beings may be the real terror.
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‘After the Hunt’ is a superficial film about profound matters. It confronts our perilous cultural moment and then buckles at the knees. @rob_rubsam reviews: https://t.co/B6XbbYvzgO
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'After the Hunt' is a superficial film about profound matters. It confronts our perilous cultural moment and then buckles at the knees.
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"'The Lord,' the psalmist proclaims, 'hears the cry of the poor.' We, by contrast, have lost our hearing." @TerenceJSweeney on MAGA, Pope Leo, and recovering our vision of the poor: https://t.co/HGFBAhxz7Y
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The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.
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"The rivers we see today, even those we consider 'wild,' are artifacts." Vincent Miller: Can thinking with rivers transform our anthropocentric imaginations? https://t.co/r522endG91
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In the face of the awesome and lifegiving power of rivers, human beings may be the real terror.
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Turner "presents Smith not as a fraud or mystic, but... 'a relentless religious innovator' whose revelations always reflected, and often reshaped, the anxieties of his time." Great review of the new Joseph Smith biography by @praxishabitus.
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In the canon of American innovation, Joseph Smith stands alongside Edison, Bell, and the Wright brothers—not for technology, but for theology.
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Roads Not Taken: On the exit ramps Evangelicals ignored https://t.co/TdpPdfL7Yd
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In 1998, the Christian right was at a crossroads. Tragically, it took a path leading into the arms of Donald Trump.
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I review Hannah Zeavin's _Mother Media_ in @commonwealmag
"Media replaces the mother, but a good mother will replace media, producing a cycle of unfulfillable expectations." @NaomiVFisher considers a new history of motherhood and media: https://t.co/49UPtvKLsv
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families? @NaomiVFisher: 'Moms Versus Machines' https://t.co/49UPtvKLsv
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families?
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Pushing home-buying as the path to security and prosperity further entrenches individualism and weakens community. Jennifer Denbow: 'The Best Investment I Never Made' https://t.co/xcPfUzLphU
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Pushing home-buying as the path to security and prosperity further entrenches individualism and weakens community.
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"I knew that I wanted to have a priest in the book. And it seemed to me that Keating should be a Jesuit because of the learnedness, but also the common human touch." Our critic @tony_domestico interviews @blgtylr: https://t.co/uTVBj1DZTx
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"I knew that I wanted to have a priest in the book. And it seemed to me that Keating should be a Jesuit because of the learnedness, but also the common human touch." Our critic @tony_domestico interviews @blgtylr: https://t.co/uTVBj1DZTx
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Brandon Taylor's latest novel, 'Minor Black Figures,' examines why we make art and what it means to be 'real.'
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"Media replaces the mother, but a good mother will replace media, producing a cycle of unfulfillable expectations." @NaomiVFisher considers a new history of motherhood and media: https://t.co/49UPtvKLsv
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Why do parents feel compelled to participate in a technological system that we all agree is burdensome and harmful to families?
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Join us tomorrow! https://t.co/u4Gt61qFpl
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Why do we read, write, and seek the truth together—even if our search never ends?
THIS THURSDAY: 'Why Write?' Film critic @alissamarie will be in conversation with poet Micheal O’Siadhail at Columbia's Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary. RSVP here! https://t.co/FOr9U0saRS
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"If our institutions trade academic inquiry for political loyalty, we will all end up just where Plato predicts in the Republic’s final books, in which an anxious tyrant tracks down dissidents." — Charles McNamara https://t.co/MtV8odhqnq
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Heated political debates make for good content, but a good education requires patient deliberation and reflective free-thinking.
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